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Here is a great film from Australia about ‘permablitzing’, and about edible backgardening. It features Asha Bee, who is currently working here with Transition Network doing a book about Transition in cities. Enjoy.
You can download a hi-res version for screenings in your local initiative here.
Regular readers will recall from last year my trip to the Positive Energy conference at Findhorn, an extraordinary few days which looked at many aspects of the work starting now in terms of building localised, bioregional infrastructure. Or you may just remember my son’s blog posts which mainly talked about the food, but were hopefully illuminating nonetheless. Well, it was such a success that Findhorn are running a second Positive Energy event, to run between the 3rd and the 9th of October, and have just produced the first publicity for it, which you can download here.
The most controversial part of the course remains the inner worlds talk – linking the personal psyche with the shape of the society we have created and naming some of the patterns that arise from what is generally unconscious for people in Industrial Growth cultures. We use a model adapted from psychosynthesis, which describes both painful wounding experiences and the healthy potential states whose loss the wounds relate to as being kept out of consciousness to some extent for most individuals in our culture. The place we operate from is a place of learnt adaptation to the world around us – particularly the world of our early childhood where our first experiences of the world, of other, and of life create lasting impressions and shape our worldview.
California Dreaming
We are about to leave the States, having done our last training in Los Angeles. It felt like a different thing to SF and the other American trainings. There feels like there is an added degree of difficulty to Transition in LA. But maybe this is not real maybe the scale of things in the US is hitting me, I don’t know. Having been built with the car as an integral part of the system, car and freeways and wide boulevards scream out at me, and seem to have a life of their own.
After a late night session in a smoke filled room, fuelled by chocolate and gallons of coffee, finally a wording has emerged from Transition Towers for the question to go forward to the great and the good at DAVOS. It is a kind of compilation of some of those you (collectively) submitted. We hope you like it, and that it gets put in front of the panel.
“On a finite planet, it is not impossible for most of us to acheive fulfillment and happiness through material consumption, and will many of our children and grandchildren even have the opportunity to make that choice if we go on with our current ways of being? Is it not time to leave the very concept of ‘economic growth’ behind?”
